Cups and Playoffs

Cups and playoffs are separate knockout competitions. A league can use either, both, or neither.

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Custom cups

The commissioner sets up a cup from the league’s Cup Setup page. A cup can have 2, 4, 8, 16, or 32 teams and can use one to four legs in each round.

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Qualification and seeding

The commissioner can select the top teams automatically or choose every first-round pairing manually. For automatic qualification, standings are taken at the end of the gameweek before round one starts:

• Head-to-head leagues rank teams by head-to-head table points, then total fantasy points.
• Classic leagues rank teams by total fantasy points.

If those values are also equal, a consistent internal team-ID order is used. Automatic seeding is not random. The first round pairs the highest seed with the lowest, the second-highest with the second-lowest, and so on. The bracket then continues in order: the winner of tie 1 plays the winner of tie 2.

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Legs and aggregate scores

Fantasy points are added across every leg of a tie. Home and away labels reverse on even-numbered legs, but there is no away-points rule. If the aggregate score is level in a round that must produce teams for the next round, the tiebreak order is:

1. Higher stored seed
2. Higher total fantasy points in the league
3. Higher head-to-head table points
4. A consistent internal team-ID fallback

Manually paired cups do not normally have stored seeds, so their tiebreak starts with total fantasy points. The result is deterministic, not random. The league’s draw-threshold setting does not apply. If automatic progression is enabled, the next fixtures are created after the preceding gameweek has finished and its points are available. Otherwise, the commissioner generates each round from Cup Setup.

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Playoffs

Playoffs are a built-in top-four competition scheduled for competition-specific gameweeks. They are separate from custom cups. The exact gameweeks are shown in Settings; they are fixed by the competition and are not moved by your league’s final-gameweek setting, so regular fixtures and playoffs can overlap. The top four are taken from the standings when the semi-finals are created, after the competition’s playoff qualification gameweek finishes. Head-to-head table points are considered first, followed by total fantasy points. In a Classic league, total fantasy points normally decide the order. The semi-finals are seed 1 vs seed 4 and seed 2 vs seed 3, followed by a final. Under the current progression rules, if a semi-final score is level, the team with more total fantasy points in the league advances. If that is also level, head-to-head table points are used. If every value is equal, the last fallback is random.